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Eat for life? Eat to improve your chances long and healthy life? Yes, you can.
At a time when we seem to be overwhelmed by conflicting diet and health messages, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) have some good news: by making the right food choices, you may [...]

Three universal goals most of us share are: to live longer, to live free of illness and to control our weight. Interesting enough, normal walking lets us achieve all three. In fact, walking may be man’s best medicine for slowing the aging process. First, it works almost every muscle in the body, improving circulation to [...]

Echinacea is America’s favorite herbal extract. The purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, is one of the most popular garden flowers — a common wildflower of the Great Plains and the southeastern United States. It is one of the leading medicinal plants of Native American peoples and is a prominent medicine used in Europe. Echinacea is especially [...]

It has been over 10 years since a milestone report was published that suggested that a lowfat diet including plenty of fruits and vegetables may lower the risk of developing cancer, according to Karen Collins, M.S., R.D., of the American Institute for Cancer Research in Washington, D.C.
Initial research focused on the benefits of dietary fiber, [...]

Although supplements will not necessarily ensure that you will become Mr. or Ms. Universe or will win the Heisman Trophy, you definitely cannot expect to be a winner with an impoverished diet. A supplement program is, therefore, needed to provide an investment against possible deficiencies.
Since athletes consume more oxygen than couch potatoes, they may suffer [...]

Although most adults should be ingesting between 12 and 15 mg/day of zinc, which is the
Recommended Dietary Allowance, most of them are only consuming between 8 and 11 mg/day. The elderly are getting only between 7 and 10 mg/day. In one study, zinc levels were found to be low in all age-Sex groups, except for [...]

How to know if you’re at risk of osteoporosis and how to prevent and manage the problem.
Are the older women in your family standing tall - or are they stooped over at the shoulders, or even bent over? Have older family members suffered fractured bones as a result of only a minor injury - just [...]

Historians know that garlic has been cultivated for at least 5,000 years, because ancient Egyptian writings attest to its importance as a crop as early as 3200 B.C., according to Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia. Herodotus, the Greek historian, reported that the laborers who built the Cheops pyramid around 2900 B.C. lived mainly on onions and [...]

Several previous studies have shown that one in five cardiac patients suffers from depression, according to Robert M. Carney, Ph.D., and associates at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
During their study, reported in the July 1993 issue of The American lournal of Medicine, the researchers established a link between depression and ventricular tachycardia [...]